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Ann Fam Med 2022 May-Jun;20(3):279-280

Northwell/NuHealth, East Meadow, New York

When I was a new social worker, a series of events changed my clinical practice. I believed academic pursuits and scholarly work were the key components to cultivating my clinical skills. My education had elucidated the importance of taking the time to listen to the patient's narrative to optimize their care. Read More

Int J Appl Posit Psychol 2022 May 17:1-30. Epub 2022 May 17.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Positive psychology interventions hold great promise as schools around the world look to increase the wellbeing of young people. To reach this aim, a program was developed to generate positive emotions, as well as improve life satisfaction, mental toughness and perceptions of school kindness in 538 expatriate students in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Starting in September 2019, the program included a range of positive psychology interventions such as gratitude, acts of kindness and mental contrasting as examples. Read More

Int J Equity Health 2022 May 17;21(1):70. Epub 2022 May 17.

Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.

Background: When COVID-19 emerged, there were well-founded fears that Māori (indigenous peoples of Aotearoa (New Zealand)) would be disproportionately affected, both in terms of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 itself and through the impact of lock-down measures. A key way in which Kōkiri (a Māori health provider) responded was through the establishment of a pātaka kai (foodbank) that also provided a gateway to assess need and deliver other support services to whānau (in this case, client). Māori values were integral to this approach, with manaakitanga (kindness or providing care for others) at the heart of Kōkiri's actions. Read More

J Surg Educ 2022 May 13. Epub 2022 May 13.

Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address:

Objective: Differential use of communal (kindness, cooperation, morality) and agentic terms (competence, assertiveness, decisiveness) may reveal bias and has been extensively reported in letters of recommendation (LoR) for residency but letter writer factors have not been thoroughly studied. We estimate the association between use of agentic and communal language with letter writer and applicant characteristics.

Design: Retrospective review of LoR comparing 2 letters written for the same applicant. Read More

Int J Mol Sci 2022 May 5;23(9). Epub 2022 May 5.

Department of Physics "E. R. Caianiello", Salerno University, 84084 Salerno, Italy.

We review processes by which different sounds, such as meditation music, mantra, kindness, or hatred expressions, and noises induce responses from cells and their components. We define 'good' or 'bad' sounds as those enhancing or inhibiting the cell's biological activity, respectively. It is highlighted that the cellular dynamics results in a coherent organization with the formation of ordered patterns due to long-range correlations among the system constituents. Read More